Cedar Key, Florida
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Cedar Key-Yankeetown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32625. It lies near Way Key. The Survey maps it on the Cedar Key quadrangle. 687 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 10 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1954 to 1978The same ground, surveyed 24 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


On record in Cedar Key
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
Island Hotellisted 1984
Population over time
2 figuresCedar Key fell from 702 to 687 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 702 | |
| 2020 | 687 | -15 (-2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1954 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Cedar Key quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS Cedar Keys quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
51 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Cedar Key between 1992 and 2018, burning about 1,032 acres in total. 30 started naturally. 4 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Natural | 30 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2010 | Natural | 4.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | LEVY/LABOR DAY FIRE |
| 2 September 2001 | Natural | 10 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 7 August 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 4 August 2014 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | PERODY ROAD (38) |
| 4 August 1999 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 10 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 20 August 2009 | Natural | 6.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | LEVY/SCRUB BOUNDRY FIRE |
| 6 July 2008 | Debris and open burning | 40 acres | Florida Forest Service | LEVY/1107/SCRUB |
| 31 July 2000 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
8 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cedar Key in 8 storm reports between 1996 and 2020: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cedar Key | $60,000 | The Cedar Key fire chief reported widespread wind damage with numerous trees and power lines down as well as damage to docks and boats in several locations around Cedar Key. |
| March 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cedar Key | $2,000 | no account filed |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cedar Key | $1,000 | Levy County Fire Rescue reported a tree knocked down, blocking CR 347 near Cedar Key. Time estimated by radar. |
| November 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cedar Key | $1,000 | Levy County dispatch reported a tree down on County Road 347 near the Cedar Key Scrub. |
| April 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cedar Key | - | Cedar Key PD reported down trees near Wildlife Refuge. |
| April 2010 | Hail | Cedar Key | - | The public reported quarter sized hail in Cedar Key. |
| March 1996 | Hail | Cedar Key | - | no account filed |
| March 1996 | Hail | Cedar Key | - | no account filed |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wakasassa (historical) | 4.4 miles | 12 | |
| Lukens | 6.2 miles | 8 | |
| Sumner | 6.5 miles | 11 | |
| Rosewood | 8.8 miles | 11 | |
| Beech Creek (historical) | 13.5 miles | 12 | |
| Vista | 16.5 miles | 12 | |
| Ellzey | 17.5 miles | 10 | |
| Port Inglis | 17.6 miles | 11 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Cedar Key | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2011116 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 280208. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.




